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This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology, Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics examined include the emergence of Idumea, the evolution of Edomite/Idumean identity, the impact of the Arabian trade on the region, comparative and regional studies of Idumea and Judah, studies of specific sites, artifacts, epigraphic and literary sources, and a section on literary and ideological constructions and memories of Edom reflected in the Hebrew Bible. This volume is a go-to place for all who are interested in the current state of research about these matters.
Contents
Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: An Introduction to the Volume Benedikt Hensel
Part I: Overviews
1. The Complexity of a Site: "Edom" in Persian Period from the Perspectives of Historical Research, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Benedikt Hensel
2. Edom in the Persian Period, Relations with the Negev, and the Arabian Trade: The Archaeological Evidence
Piotr Bienkowski, University of Manchester
3. The Genesis of Idumea
Yigal Levin, Bar Ilan University
4. The Evolution of an Edomite/Idumean Identity: Hellenistic Maresha as a Case Study
Ian Stern, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
Part II: Case Studies
Idumea and Judah
5. Edom in Judah: Identity and Social Entanglement in the Late Iron Age Negev
Andrew J. Danielson, University of California, Los Angeles
6. Dry Climate During the Early Persian Period and Its Impact on the Establishment of Idumea
Dafna Langgut and Oded Lipschits, both Tel Aviv University
7. A Tale of Two Provinces: Judah and Edom During the Persian Period
Alexander Fantalkin and Oren Tal, both Tel Aviv University
Edom and Idumea: Sites and Artifacts
8. Idumean in Light of the Votive Deposits of Terracotta Figurines
Adi Erlich, University of Haifa
9. A Monumental Hellenistic-Period Ritual Compound in Upper Idumea: New Findings from Ḥorbat ʿAmuda
Michal Haber (The Hebrew University), Oren Gutfeld (The Hebrew University) and Pablo Betzer (israel Antiquities Authority)
Edom and Idumea from Epigraphic and Literary Sources
10. Edom in the Nabonidus Chronicle: A Land Conquered or a Vassal Defended? A Reappraisal of the Annexation of North Arabia by the Late Babylonian Empire
Hanspeter Schaudig, University of Heidelberg
11. Have There Been Prophets in Edom? An Ostracon from Ḥorvat 'Uza Once More
Bob Becking, Utrecht University
12. Economic and Administrative Realia of Rural Idumea at the End of the Persian Period
Diana V. Edelman
13. The Aramaic Divination Texts
Esther Eshel (Bar Ilan University), Michael Langlois (University of Strasbourg), and Mark Geller (University College London)
Part III: Literary Constructions of "Edom": the Hebrew Bible Traditions
14. Edom as a Complex Site of Memory among the Literati of Late Persian/early Hellenistic Judah: Some Observations
Ehud Ben Zvi
15. Think Positive! How the Positive Portrayal of Edom in Late Biblical Texts Leads to New Perspectives on Understanding the Literary-History of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Chronicles
Benedikt Hensel
16. The "Edom Texts" in Samuel-Kings in Inner- and Extrabiblical Perspective
Stephen Germany, University of Basel
17. Late Historical Edom and Reading Edom, Seir, and Esau in the Prophetic Literature through Persian Lenses: Preliminary Observations
Diana V. Edelman
18. The Contribution of Chronicles to the Memory Argument about Edom as Reflected in the Core Repertoire of the Yehudite Literati of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period
Ehud Ben Zvi
